title: Psychotherapy: some guiding principles.
abstract: A veteran therapist reflects on his first 50 years of practice and underlines some important principles that can contribute to successful therapeutic outcomes: (1) Know Yourself; (2) Know Your Freud; (3) Protect Privacy and Your Principles; (4) Develop Your Own Style; (5) Utilize Here-and-Now Family Experience; (6) Connect with the Covert Inner Child; (7) Appreciate Eclectic Options; (8) Help Clients Get Beyond Their Anger; (9) Face Mortality; (10) Enjoy Your Practice.
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Haas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept